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Welcome to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ in All of Scripture. Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus. Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire biblical story, but but the center of it. Hey, friends. Welcome back to another week of A year in the Bible. My name is Alexa and I'm joined by our theological editor at the Daily Grace Company and one of the writers on our Christ in All Scripture study, Scott. Hi, Scott.
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Hey, Alexa. I'm really happy to be here.
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I'm so happy to have you here, Scott, as we walk through another week of seeing Christ in all Scripture. This week we are studying Proverbs 1:7 and Colossians 2:2,3. And we're going to learn that true wisdom is found only in Jes. Us. So we're starting off our study by annotating Proverbs 1:7. So, Scott, could you read that for us?
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Yeah, absolutely. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
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A
Great. Thanks, Scott. Would you want to share with us any annotation takeaways from this passage?
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Definitely. So I'll start with prompts three and five and kind of COVID those together. These are fun prompts for me. So prompt three told us to circle any occurrences in the word wisdom or related words. And so looking at the verse, there's only one mention of wisdom, but there is also knowledge and discipline mentioned. And I think a fair question is like, okay, are those related to wisdom? But I think that's where prompt 5 was helpful for me. That tells us to go back and read the first seven verses of Proverbs and list any other words you see related to wisdom, knowledge, or instruction in these verses. And so several words stood out to me in these first seven verses. First of all, there's wisdom and knowledge and discipline all appear in these earlier verses as well. I think it's also cool that we read the book of Proverbs is meant to provide us with things like guidance and understanding, insight, but then also righteousness, justice, and integrity. And something that reminded me of is that wisdom in Proverbs is a moral category. And I say that because I think a lot of times we think wisdom, we think of like this old person with Gray hair, just in a rocking chair, spouting off these short, pithy sayings. And, you know, that can be wisdom too. I'm not saying it's not, but. But wisdom in the Bible is more. It's. It's living rightly before God. And so fools here aren't necessarily people who lack intelligence, but are people who reject God's ways.
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A
Yeah, that's really helpful, Scott. I definitely think it's easy to think of wisdom as like, like you just said, someone who is old and. And wise, but knowing that the wisdom Proverbs is talking about is more about living rightly before God makes wisdom feel a little bit more attainable. You know, it's. It's something that I can actively do now. And while I can grow in wisdom over time, it's not something that I have to, you know, wait to have. So that's. That's super helpful. Did you have any other takeaways?
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Sure. Prompt four was fun for me to consider as well. So I looked up all these different verses, and the common phrase I saw in all of them was the phrase the fear of the Lord. And in particular Psalm 111, 10 and Proverbs 9:10 stood out to me, which say something very similar to Proverbs 1:7, but slightly different, where it says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 1:7 says it's the beginning of knowledge, but very related ideas. And the reason that stood out to me is that just that phrase of the fear of the Lord is that I think a lot of us as we read the Bible can get stuck on that phrase fear of the Lord. Like, you know, is Bible telling us to be afraid of God. And no, I don't think that's quite the idea. I think the idea is more of reverencing God. And if you've ever, if you can relate, if you've ever gotten stuck on that, I just want to point out that here fearing God is supposed to positively transform us. And one verse I love in particular about the fear of God is Psalm 130, verse 4, and particularly in the ESV translates it this way. It says, with you talking about God with you, there is forgiveness that you may be feared. And I love that because fearing God in this verse is a response to being forgiven by God.
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Yeah, I love that, Scott. I definitely remember being confused about what it meant to fear God when I was younger. But knowing that fearing God is about revering him in light of his forgiveness makes fearing God something to definitely take seriously, but also something that's it's positive, and it's going to grow us as followers of Christ, which makes fearing God all the more inviting. Thanks so much for just walking us through that. Well, I'm looking forward to talking more about this passage, so we hope that you join us tomorrow as we go deeper into Proverbs 1:7. Thank you for listening to today's episode of a Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. Be sure to check out our show notes for some helpful links and resources related to today's episode, and make sure you're following a daily gracepodcast and hedailygraceco on Instagram for more Bible study resources and encouragement. We're looking forward to studying God's Word with you again tomorrow. Bye friends.